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...only interest which we had in the attached clipping from Page 29, Aug. 17 issue of TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made...
...they (the finalists in the national municipal course golf tournament) stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read: MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE...
...That was just about the time he left the ninth tee," said the greensman with a smirk. The old gentlemen then learned from him how the figure they had seen was that of Frank Watts Jr., who, taking a bet that he could play 18 holes over the difficult course in 45 minutes and turn in a card of 85 or better, had gone out in 21 minutes with 38 strokes, come in with the same number of shots in 23 min. 45 sec., establishing a record of 44:45 and 82 for 18 holes which he challenges other golfers...
...horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...they stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He opened it, turned pale, then bit his lip and shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts...